Victor Trivas, a Russian-born filmmaker who worked in Germany as a scenarist (notably for G. W. Pabst) and writer (see The Murder of Dimitri Karamazov, October 13), emigrated to France and then to the U.S. at the outbreak of World War II, where he wrote scripts, including that for Welles' The Stranger. He remains best known for his German anti-war film No Man's Land. Trivas' work was a major rediscovery at the recent La Rochelle Film Festival where his French film, Dans les Rues was described by Variety as “the jewel of the program, and a truly forgotten film.... a small masterpiece of French populist cinema, a confluence of various European influences...that prefigures the ‘poetic realism' that was to flower late in the decade under Marcel Carne (et al).... It tells of a young man who falls in with bad company and finds himself an outlaw, and its cast includes Jean-Pierre Aumont, Madeleine Ozeray and Vladimir Sokoloff. Film bears no pretensions to social analysis, but is a genuinely lyrical evocation of life on the fringes of Paris society. Trivas' poetic direction is inestimably enhanced by the music of another great emigré, Hans Eisler.... The feeling of exhilaration is enriched by Rudolph Maté's photography and the sets of Andre Andrejew (one of the many brilliant White Russian artists who helped make the French cinema what it was in the '20s and '30s).”